Poetic drama : an anthology of plays in verse from the ancient Greek to the modern American / edited by Alfred Kreymborg.

viii, 855 p. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographies.

Agamemnon ; [Agamemnon. English] / Aeschylus ; trEdith Hamilton ; 6 characters (4m, 2w) ; Greek drama. -- Oedipus coloneus ; [Oedipus Coloneus. English] / Sophocles ; tr. George Young ; 8 characters (6m, 2w) ; Greek drama. -- Ion ; [Ion. English] / Euripides ; tr. H. D. ; 8 characters (5m, 3w) ; Greek drama. -- The Acharnians ; [Acharnians. English] / Aristophanes ; tr. J. H. Frere ; 18 characters (15m, 3w) ; Greek drama. -- The chalk circle / Anonymous ; tr. Ethel Van Der Veer ; 16 characters (11m, 5w) ; Chinese drama. -- Nakamitsu (Manju) / Seami ; tr. B. H. Chamberlin ; 5 characters (5 men) ; Japanese drama. -- The mystery of Adam / tr. Edward Noble Stone ; French drama. -- Abraham, Melchisedec and Isaac ; 8 characters (7m, 1w) ; English drama. -- The second sheperds' play ; 8 characters (5m, 2w, 1c) ; English drama. -- Everyman ; 16 characters (10m, 6w) ; English drama. -- The wandering scholar from paradise / Hans Sachs ; tr. Samuel A. Eliot, Jr. ; German drama. -- The first part of Tamburlaine the great / Christopher Marlowe ; 24 characters (20m, 4w) ; English drama. -- Measure for measure / William Shakespeare ; 21 characters (16m, 5w) ; English drama. -- Volpone, or, the fox / Ben Jonson ; 18 characters (16m, 2w) ; English drama. -- A new way to pay old debts / Philip Massinger ; 17 characters (13m, 4w) ; English drama.-- The white devil, or, Vittoria corombona / John Webster ; 25 characters (20m, 5w) ; English drama. -- The sheep well ; [Fuente ovejuna. English] / Lope de Vega ; tr. John Garrett Underhill ; 26 characters (22m, 4w) ; Spanish drama.-- Cinna, or, the mercy of Augustus ; [Cinna. English] / Pierre Corneille ; tr. Paul Landis ; 9 characters (7m, 2w) ; French drama.-- Athaliah ; [Athalie. English] / Jean Racine ; tr. Robert Bruce Boswell ; 13 characters (9m, 4w) ; French drama.-- The misanthrope ; [Misanthrope. English] / Molière ; tr. Curtis Hidden Page ; 11 characters (8m, 3w) ; French drama.-- Torquato tasso ; [Torquato Tasso. English] / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; tr. Anna Swanwick ; 5 characters (3m, 2w) ; German drama -- The death of Wallenstein ; [Wallensteins Tod. English] / Friedrich Schiller ; tr. Samuel Taylor Coleridge ; 25 characters (21m, 4w) ; German drama. -- The Cenci / Percy Bysshe Shelley ; 12 characters (9m, 3w) ; English drama. -- The white saviour / Gerhart Hauptmann ; tr. Willa and edwin muir ; Large cast ; German drama. -- The last night of Don Juan ; [Dernière nuit de Don Juan. English] / Edmond Rostand ; tr. T. Lawrason Riggs ; 7 characters (7 men) ; French drama. -- The king's threshold / William Butler Yeats ; 14 characters (10m, 4w) ; Irish drama. -- Gruach / Gordon Bottomley ; 13 characters (6m, 7w). -- The dog beneath the skin, or, Where is Francis? / W. J. Auden and Christopher Isherwood ; 18 characters (13m, 5w) ; English drama. -- The death of Eve / William Vaughn Moody ; 6 characters (4m, 2w) ; American drama. -- Aria da capo / Edna St. Vincent Millay ; 5 characters (4m, 1w) ; American drama. -- Hole in the wall / Alfred Kreymborg ; 5 characters (3m, 2w) ; American drama. -- The fall of the city / Archibald MacLeish ; Variable cast ; American drama. -- Shenandoah / Delmore Schwartz ; 12 characters (7m, 5w) ; American drama.

808.82 P745 1941